1 Education and work
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Education and work
School to work
transition
Signalling
MeritocracyFunctionalism
Human CapitalAt a theoretical level its nature elicits a
debate between:
Educational regime
Vocational training
Macro
Educational system
Employment regulations
Active labour market policies
It is affected at several
levels:
Micro
Transition paths
Types of trajectories at individual level according to the transition time and the setting of expectations
Labourer
Family adscription
Early success
Successive approximation
Destructured
Precarious
Flexicurity strategy
Transition countries
Insider protection strategy
Type of regimes of employment
according to labour policies and the
degree of employment
protection flexibility
Liberal strategy
Study of transitions at
micro and macro level bring us two
typologies:
Credentialism
Educational paths
School to work transition [Gabaldón Estevan, D. and Täht, K. 2011 Educación y transiciones profesionales. At Beltrán, J. and Hernàndez, F.J. Sociología de la educación, McGraw-Hill, Madrid,101-128]
Setting of expectations complex
Setting of expectations simple
Transition time early
Transition time
delayed
Successive approximationEarly success
Destructured trajectories
Labourer trajectories
Precarious trajectories
Family adscription trajectories
Trajectories [Casal, J., Garcia, M., Merino, R., Quesada, M. (2006) Itinerarios y trayectorias. Una perspectiva de la transición de la escuela al trabajo, Trayectorias, VII (22) 9-20, pp. 18]
Strong employment sustaining policies
Weak employment
sustaining policies
Low flexibility
High
flexibility
(Active LM policy)
(Política MT passive)
(No LM policy)
(Weak EPL)(Strict EPL)
Flexicurity
strategy
Insider
protection
strategy
Liberal strategy
Transition countries
EPL - Employment Protection Legislation
LM - Labour Market
Trajectories [Blossfeld, H.-P., Buchholz, S., Bukodi, E. y Kurz, K (2008): Young workers, globalization and labor market: Comparing early working life in eleven countries, Cheltenham y Northampton: Edward Elgar, pp. 18]